OK. This time I'm talking about two ladies in Los Ancianos.The lucky first one I'm talking is Dona Guadalupe Tobar. She is 90-years old, but she looks so young that people think she is 70-years old. Even I guessed she is 72-years old but she is not.She was very nice to me, she was telling me about her life and what she likes to do. When she was younger, she worked at the factory as the checker of clothing failures. Everyday she had to see hundreds of clothes if they had any buttons off or any threads out.
After several years of hard work, Dona Guadalupe got sick in her eyes so couldn't keep working and had to take surgery on her right eye.
Luckily, the other eye that until then had no problems got worsened now and the eye that she got surgery is the one that Dona Guadalupe is relying to see. She has a son, who has three children. She was telling me that it was really odd that she is the first of ten children but every other siblings died except for her and one of her sisters. She comes everyday to Los Ancianos to eat lunch and likes to listen to the sermon given there.
Dona Dominga is 76 years-old. She had nine children, but unluckily she lost two of them and now has seven children. They are all married with children now. She married at a very young age and had her first house in zone 6 when she was 25 years-old. In that house, she lived 25 years. But her misfortune comes when she ages 50, when her husband who was a heavy drinker
died of alcohol intoxication. This is the reason why she had to move to the house where she is living now, which locates by La Molina in Cirilio Flores street. She was a housewife until her husband died, but after his death she had to provide her nine children by working in a factory that makes traditional Guatemala clothes (Trajes Tipicos). After five years of working there, one of her children started taking care of her so she quit. Well, she really likes to joke and to cook. She was telling me all this story of how to cook traditional dishes such as Jocom, Mole, etc. She told me that she tried many different kinds of meats, including rabbits, gophers, dogs, and opossums. She still works, but now she washes clothes from the neighborhood. She thanks God everyday by letting her work. She is really nice, I miss talking to her. ^____^
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